#vision gran turismo

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BVLGARI Aluminium Vision Gran Turismo, 2023. A digital concept car made by Italian jewellery and watch company Bulgari (stylised BVLGARI) as part of the Vision Gran Turismo program. It takes inspiration from the BVLGARI Aluminium watch from 1998. The design is a result of a collaboration between BVLGARI's Product Creation Executive Director, Fabrizio Buonamassa Stigliani, and Fabio Filippini, former Design Director of Pininfarina

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My PORSCHE Vision GT concept, twin brother Spyder Concept

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2015 Peugeot Vision Gran Turismo Concept

My tumblr-blogs: https://www.tumblr.com/blog/germancarssince1946 & https://www.tumblr.com/blog/frenchcarssince1946 & https://www.tumblr.com/blog/englishcarssince1946 & https://www.tumblr.com/blog/italiancarssince1946 & https://www.tumblr.com/blog/japanesecarssince1947

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Genesis X Gran Berlinetta VGT Concept

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I have no idea how the drifting camera settings in GT7 work 😵‍💫.

(Gran Turismo 7)

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2018 Audi e-Tron Vision Gran Turismo Concept

My tumblr-blogs:

www.tumblr.com/germancarssince1946 & www.tumblr.com/frenchcarssince1946 & www.tumblr.com/englishcarssince1946 & www.tumblr.com/italiancarssince1946 & www.tumblr.com/japanesecarssince1947 & www.tumblr.com/uscarssince1935

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Volkswagen Design Vision GTi Concept

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Mercedes-Benz Vision Gran Turismo

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Volkswagen Design Vision GTi Concept

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What a difference 67 years makes juxtaposition of Škoda 1100 OHC Spider, 1957 & Škoda Vision Gran Turismo, 2024. The Czech car maker have revealed their virtual race car for the Gran Turismo 7 PlayStation game. The 800hp full electric concept takes inspiration from the 1957 Škoda 1100 OHC Spider race car that had a 92hp DOHC engine and a fibreglass body. Only two 1100 OHC Spiders were made

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How to save weight?

Consider getting rid of your co-driver!

PORSCHE Vision Gran Tursimo Spyder

I tried to combine the classic PORSCHE volumes with radical cutted aero themes to create a new formlanguage living from contrast.

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5. Art, and more still - marketing!

While hot off the heels of describing cars as items with personality, there’s another perspective the matter can be approached with: art. Usually that’s a word we like to use for something inherently imbued with culture and ideas and beliefs and statements and the lot, right? I mean, my country officially recognized a car as such.

And right now, if I were a hack, I would make my case by showing you the Art Cars -a BMW project that involved getting their cars painted up by artists- unaware not just that they only prove cars can be canvases but that using them as evidence implicitly paints the world of art as a separate entity holding claim to the term and making it only ever accessible through association with it.

But I'm not a hack. So I'll only show them because they're a vaguely related cool car thing I want to brag about having seen and I show those by default.

Actually, no, too many of them are too good to ignore, I need to make a separate post about them altogether. But while we're here, let it be known that this is not a thing isolated to BMW: here's a Porsche Vision Gran Turismo (which proofreading friend of the blog @ldub0775 is not that wrong in suggesting I should make a post about) handpainted by one Vexx...

...here's a Ferrari 812 Competizione art car created by its chief designer Flavio Manzoni...

...and here's- wait wait wait, back up. I think this one's interesting for our purposes.

I mean, look at all those details. Look at all those decisions, made in sketching, carried to production, and then highlighted again with this example's art. Look at all that non-functional work. Those surfaces on the bumper can't possibly be needed for packaging. Those lines on the hood can't possibly be something airflow cares about. Those cuts on the taillights can't possibly do anything but make the thing more complicated and expensive. And really, we've gone over this, designs change even within the same car just for the sake of making it look different. How is this not human creativity being put at the service of imbuing something with some idea of beauty / emotion / meaning / message? And how can that possibly not count as art by any definition that isn't self-impressed gatekeeping?

But there's more to car design than even that, because where art is just distilled statements, car design is also what some argue you can't have in "real, pure art": marketing. Because cars market themselves, through enticing with their shapes and feels and sounds (just like people!) and channel that into marketing the brand through their badging - which can range from almost foregoing it in off-brand experiments like the aforementioned Pike Cars, in which Nissan badging was literally millimetric, to things like the Italo-Chinese DR1's endearingly embarrassing Ambassador package, which got you a discount in exchange for making your car a drivable billboard.

Hell, sometimes, in the case of 'halo cars', marketing can even be the only reason a car even exists! For example:

The LFA was a $375,000 car Lexus sold 500 of - and it cost so much to develop that the brand still lost millions on the whole affair. Or rather, spent millions making little kids all over stop thinking of Lexus as "the brand grandpa endangers road users in", and start thinking of it as "the brand capable of showing Ferrari how it's done". This car's styling, its bespoke V10 engine and the consequent performance figures, its gorgeous interior, they obviously were means to market itself, but marketing itself was itself a means of marketing the cars Lexus actually makes money on.

what do you like about cars?

I think you knew, upon asking this, that I could only ever have answered with either an ironic one-liner or a dozen-part novel. And unfortunately, this is already the second line, so novel it is. So then, without any further ado than the literal half year that’s gone by since this was asked, let's go.

1. Engineering matters

At the end of last year (aka when I started writing this, yikes) my dear old iPhone 6S moved on to a new home because it simply wasn't keeping up with me anymore. (And again, I was using an iPhone 6S in 2023. If I say a phone is too slow, it's too slow.) I had plenty of criteria for the replacement: a smallish screen not overboard on resolution, ideally a physical media control button and/or vibration toggle, repairability, a FUCKING AUX JACK... Something like the Sony Xperia 10, whose only real issue is marketing so trash you've only just now learned Sony never stopped making phones.

And yet...

This fancy wallpapers-sporting foldable is a Motorola RAZR 5G, a phone whose too-big screen already broke (though at the edge due to adhesive issues) and those who dared try warn repairing it will be as hard as phone repairs get. Why the fuck did I buy this? Well, because it has something more important than the aux jack, proper sizing, and good cameras: it made me go “That’s so cool!”, and when’s the last time a phone made you say that? It's the cusp of a new technology, and whether it becomes the future of phones, a future of phones, or just a weird footnote, it is an island of interesting in a sea of boring. And sadly, even this island is rapidly sinking. The drive for new form factors has already boiled down to the same two phones and their evolution is sinking into the usual millimetric proportion tweaking, camera rearranging, touchscreen expanding, case material switching, fingerprint sensor moving, and spec improvements not even manufacturers can come up with use cases for. I mean, seriously, how does the iPhone 15 differ from a software-updated iPhone X (which is apparently not pronounced "x", so I guess the iPhone Twitter)? Nothing is new. Nothing is tackled differently. The user experience does not differ. And why should it, when iPhone users will get a new one out of habit anyway and many are so tech illiterate moving a button could hospitalize them? Five generation newer and 150% faster are numbers you basically have to trust, because they don't make a difference that matters.

But in cars? 150% faster will matter alright. Even just looking at it. Cars are a visceral experience to even witness, let alone ride in or drive, and the frantic engineering pursuits for performance and overall capability actually have impactful real world implications beyond "some pockets will bulge 1mm less". And their engineering involves so many fields that there’s always a breakthrough going on somewhere - which leads to another reason their engineering is so interesting: there’s simply so much of it that anyone interested in engineering will find something for them, no matter their level or sector of expertise! Interested in mechanics? Well, obviously you’ll have a field day! Aerodynamics? Don't even get me started! Electronics? You're getting more goods by the year! It spread from engine management to safety assists to infotainment to ergonomic adjustments to even suspension and aerodynamics! Sound design? Even just working on the way engines sound is a profession of its own, let alone making these barrels of metal and glass propelling themselves at triple digit speeds through hundreds of explosions a second things you can comfortably have a conversation in - and that's not even mentioning horns and chimes! Hi-Fi? We’ve spent most of a century trying to get concert hall sound from a tiny tin can where everyone sits off-center and everything bumps and shakes around and you have maybe room for two components* a third the normal size and speakers can only be in a handful of places you wouldn’t want them which may well be the next room over**!

And this is just engineering.

*Like everything in the car world, there are exceptions to that

**For those unfamiliar, subwoofers, the speakers dedicated to, indeed, sub-bass, due to their frequent humongousness are often installed in the trunk.

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Mashle Ending Cars

My Beetle is a massively certified mechanic in Japan who is a bit of a motorcycle fanatic. (I cannot emphasize how much I am understating the term FANATIC here.)

So naturally since I know nothing about cars and they're tangentially related to motorcycles, I asked him to tell me the names of all the cars in the ending, and he did well.

Mash - Nissan Fair Lady's Z 2008 model - He was able to get this one immediately and was like, "Anyone who knows their cars would know this immediately."

Lance - Beetle thought it was a Mazda RX-8 but it might be an import model - We guessed a Ferrari, but a lot of them have different headlight shapes.

Dot - Jeep Wrangler. Thats it. No numbers for you lmao

Finn - Morgan Plus 4 (had to google this one because too many similar looking classic cars and this STILL doesn't look exactly right.)

Rayne - Rolls Royce Phantom III baybee

I LOVE THAT THE AMES BROS HAVE CLASSIC OLDIE CARS. THEY'RE SO STYLISH. We already know that Finn is the only one in the main group with any sense of style and THIS JUST PROVES IT. I wanna go for a spin with him.

(Also classic cars as SO. FUCKING. EXPENSIVE. to own in Japan. The older your car is the more you pay in taxes. Which I wonder if it means anything here...)

Draco Malfoy Ryoh Grantz- Mercedes-Benz Vision Gran Turismo or one of the other versions. This also took a bit of googling cause he could only pin the Brand Name and not the car itself cause it's too new.

Harry Potter Orter Madl- Ashton Martin Vanquisher (THE NAMING SENSE. DID THEY PICK THIS CAR SOLELY FOR THE NAME VANQUISHER???)

Carpaccio - Porche Boxster - He picked up on the headlights immediately because we had a low budget Porche at one point, inherited from his brother.

Margarette Macaron - BMW r100 - This was of course the fastest on he pinned and AHHH MY BELOVED MARGARETTE they're so cool for riding a motorcycle.

Also.

The Mash's dads on a driving date.

Love that for them. So sweet.

And fucking of course this is a euphamism for magic and MASH IS THE ONLY ONE WITHOUT A DRIVER'S LICENSE SO HE'S PUSHING THE CAR.

AND THAT CAR IS IN PARK AND/OR HAS THE BREAKS ON because of course it fucking does why am I surprised lmao

This song is a banger too. When I get around to it, I wanna do a break down of the lyrics to this and other OPs and EDs.

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Genesis X Gran Berlinetta Vision Gran Turismo